Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the President heard that, said one aide, "he clenched his teeth so tight that his jaw turned white." The reaction went far beyond personal pique: Carter and his aides took the speech as a sign that the Ayatullah had misread U.S. restraint as an indication that the nation was afraid to take any action. They agreed that he must be disabused of that notion. The President, who was spending Thanksgiving week at Camp David, returned immediately to the White House by helicopter for a late-afternoon meeting with the Special Coordination Committee, which has been meeting twice...
Iranians have shown every sign of fighting deportation. Their effort is helped by court decisions of recent years, which have made it harder for the Government to deport aliens, whatever their offense...
Planted at the hotel entrance, a giant derrick greeted delegates with the sign, CARTER GOT US INTO THIS MESS. IT WILL TAKE A CRANE TO PULL...
...point Sanchez uses the phrase "permissive society," a sure sign of brain death. Living with the Stones seems to have taken its toll on Sanchez--he's already gray--and now he's looking for somebody to blame...
THIS WEEK the Carter administration agreed to hear the Iranian charges against the former Shah of Iran at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council. This decision is a positive step toward a de-escalation of tensions and a good sign that the administration understands that the Iranians must have an international forum--a place to blow off steam--if a military confrontation is to be avoided and the lives of the hostages saved. Without compromising the nation's stance on the sanctity of foreign embassies and decisions to grant asylum, the United States can take steps...